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Quotes About Parallel

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.
~ Neil Gaiman
Tornadoes were, in out part of Central Illinois, the dimensionless point at which parallel lines met and whirled and blew up. They made no sense.
~ David Foster Wallace
I have always loved long journeys. The act of leaving accustomed surroundings is a release from real time, real life. You can place that familiar life on hold, freeze it, secure in the awareness that it will be there waiting for you when you come back. The journey itself becomes an opportunity to explore parallel lives, those other optional lives which have always been there.
~ Unknown
V?šina lidí se domnívá, že neandertálci byli našimi p?edky, ve skute?nosti to však byl paralelní druh (lépe ?e?eno poddruh), který s Homo sapiens sout?žil o p?ežití. Výraz "sout?žil" je k nám p?itom pom?rn? laskavý, protože neandertálci nás p?ed?ili tak?ka ve všem. Byli siln?jší, vytrvalejší a pravd?podobn? také chyt?ejší.
~ Christopher McDougall
Each community lives by its own rules in a disconnected, parallel universe. Integration is like a ghost people speak of but no one ever sees.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Until the end of World War II, Argentina and Australia were running in parallel.
~ Clive James
As above, so below. As within, so without. Originated by Hermes TRISMEGISTUS!
~ Unknown
Suddenly he is beside me. I do not know how, but we are the same age. There is something tragic about this fact.
~ Hisham Matar
There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen. It happens just like this. You don't become someone else. You're still exactly the same. Everything around you still smells and looks and feels exactly the same.
~ Liane Moriarty
Wherever she went, whatever she did, part of her mind was always imagining a hypothetical life running parallel to her actual one,
~ Liane Moriarty
Maybe, thought Alice fearfully, the other Alice who has been living my life for the last ten years isn't very nice.
~ Liane Moriarty
This is what it feels like. You don't change. There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen. It happens just like this. You don't become someone else. You're still exactly the same. Everything around you still smells and looks and feels exactly the same.
~ Liane Moriarty
Vasazica asa se intampla, se gandea o parte din ea in timp ce se legana si se ruga. Asta e senzatia. Nu te schimbi. Nu exista nicio protectie speciala cand treci linia invizibila de la viata obisnuita la acea lume paralela unde se intampla tragedii. Se intampla exact asa. Nu devii altcineva. Nu primesti protectie speciala. Esti exact la fel. Totul in jurul tau inca miroase, arata, se simte exact la fel.
~ Liane Moriarty
We're trying keep 'The Originals' in the same world as 'The Vampire Diaries.'
~ Joseph Morgan
Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.
~ Sylvester McCoy
There was a parallel universe that ran alongside the normal world, and if you went through the wrong door, or turned left instead of right, ran up the street instead of down it, you could accidentally push the curtain aside and end up in that other place, where everything was different and everything was wrong. That
~ Jennifer Weiner
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
~ Oliver Evans
We wanted a world that looked like our world. In the original 'Flintstones,' low flat buildings filled the city and suburbs. Now, high-rise buildings and apartments exist next to the family neighborhoods. Part of the 'Flintstone' fun remains its parallel of our world.
~ William Hanna
what else are parallel structures than an area where a different life can be lived, a life that is in harmony with its own aims and which in turn structures itself in harmony with those aims? . . .What else are those initial attempts at social self-organization than the efforts of a certain part of society…to rid itself of the self-sustaining aspects of totalitarianism and, thus, to extricate itself radically from its involvement in the…totalitarian system?
~ Vaclav Havel
It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer. . . . Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.
~ Vera Nazarian
If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.
~ Max Tegmark
If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.
~ Philip Pullman
when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra's Oxford and Will's would lie over each other again, like transparent images on two sheets of film being moved closer and closer until they merged–although they would never truly touch.
~ Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a universe like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set in the universe we know. The third volume will move between the universes.
~ Philip Pullman